I have an old Dell Poweredge T100 from my fathers old business running Windows Small Business server 2008, however I do not know the admin password nor do I have the boot/windows install disk. Is there any possible way to access the server or reset the admin password? Bare in mind, i'm not a tech wizzard, any help is greatly appreciated.
How can I access Windows SBS 2008 without the admin domain password or boot disk?
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Microsofts official answer to this would be no, but someone on their forums linked to this, hopefully it helps.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/meacoex/archive/2011/08/15/reset-your-windows-sever-2008-r2-domain-controller-administrator-password.aspx
Restart your Windows server 2008 DC with the installation CD
Choose your language and click next
Select your partition and installation version and click Next
Click on Comm and Line Prompt
Change directory to the access the system 32 directory. Then your original C:/drive is changed to D: or E: depending on the number of drive and partitions you have on that system.
Rename the file Utilman.exe to Utilman.exe.bak using the comm and Copy Utilman.exe Utilman.exe.bak.
Using Command Move Cmd.exe Utilman.exe to move CMD.exe file into Utilman.exe. Press O or Y to accept after that restart your Computer normaly
At the user logon screen, press a combination of Windows KEY+U, then the CMD.exe will appear. Type net user “Username””new password”;
Then your system Admin Password is reset. Please don’t forget to rename back Utilman. Exe ->Cmd.exe and Utilman.exe.bak-> Utilman.exe after getting back access.